[Thanks, Sergio]
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Filed under: Home EntertainmentFans of high-def audio rejoice: The
first Blu-ray recording has been released. Fans of anything other than
Divertimento, hold your horses: The first release is from
Thondheimsolistene, an orchestra from Norway. "Divertimenti", as it is
called, will be released by the 2L label in full HD audio glory along
with a SACD track for those not on the Blu-ray bandwagon just yet.
Formats include 2.0 LPCM, 5.1 LPCM, 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio, 5.1 Dolby
True HD, 5.1 Dolby Digital at 48KHz, and it has been confirmed to work
just fine on the PS3.
[Via MiC]
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It's far from the first supercomputer created with the help of some
gaming hardware, but this rig built by a group of researchers from the
University of Antwerp is certainly impressive enough in its own right,
with it employing four of NVIDIA's high-end GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics
cards (which combined pack eight GPUs) to help develop new
computational methods for tomography. Dubbed the FASTRA, the system
also packs an AMD Phenom 9850 processor, 8GB of RAM, and 750GB hard
drive, all of which is powered by a 1,500W power supply (and tastefully
lit up with some blue LEDs). That apparently lets 'em do calculations
that previously took an hour in just a few seconds, not to mention
finally get a decent frame rate in Crysis. Be sure to check out the
video after the break for a thorough (and more entertaining than it
should be) overview of the system.
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Filed under: LaptopsIt's only just barely made it out into the wild,
but DigiTimes is now reporting that ASUS has already stopped taking
orders from resellers for its 8.9-inch Eee PC 900 in anticipation of
the now imminent launch of the Atom-based Eee PC 901. That word
apparently comes from some unspecified "industry sources," who also
claim that the Eee PC 900 was only ever a "transitional product" to
begin with, which ASUS pushed out the door with a plain old Celeron M
processor in order to get an 8.9-inch model out ahead of its
competitors. Certainly a reasonable conclusion to draw, but a quick
glance of online retailers shows that there's still plenty of Eee PC
900s out there for the taking if you're not sold on this whole Atom
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Today is a day that PC Perspective is calling "one of the most pivotal
days in the history of VIA Technologies." That isn't just hyperbole
either, son. Via's Isaiah processor is now official and re-dubbed Nano.
The Atom-spanking (at least preliminarily), 65-nm processors come in U
(ultra-portable) and L (desktop and laptop) classes with a maximum
power rating pegged between 5W to 25W. The 1GHz U2300, 1.3+GHz U2400,
and 1.2GHz U2500 pull just 5W, 8W, and 6.8W, respectively with an itty
bitty 100mW idle draw. Products are expected to hit shelves (and your
palm) sometime in Q3. We'll bring you the detailed Nano vs. Atom vs.
Puma benchmarks just as soon as we get 'em.
[Thanks, Ryan]
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Thinking of a new Eee PC or maybe Wind laptop? Hold up, Dell's about to
loose this baby on the sub-$500 mini-laptop world. All we've got are
these pictures for now but the specs can't be far behind. Even the name
"mini-Inspiron" comes from the file name of the Dell-supplied pics.
However, if what we've already heard holds up, then we're looking at
8.9-inches dolled up in a sub-$500 price tag with a choice of both
Windows XP Home or Ubuntu Linux, 8-in-1 card reader, integrated webcam,
direct media playback buttons, and a "host of wireless access options."
Expect more next week as the Computex show kicks off.
Gallery: Dell's "mini-Inspiron" Eee PC killer revealed
[Via Gizmodo]
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Oh, snap. As if it weren't official enough already, the subnote war is
on. According to a Computex invitation from ASUS, the outfit is
planning to not only showcase the Eee PC 901, but also a brand new
variant that will likely go mano a mano with the 10-inch MSI Wind. We
quote: "[ASUS] would also like to specially extend an invitation to you
to attend the official global launch of the new Eee PC 901 and 1000
series." There's no details beyond that right there, but it's plenty to
whet our appetites on the heels of the 10.6-inch Eee PC 1001 evidence
we've already collected. Oh Tuesday, you seem so far away.
[Via GizmoLounge]
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Whatever you do, don't push the red button. MSI has pimped out its new
GeForce 9600 GT Diamond graphics card with dual DVI, dual HDMI, optical
audio and a shiny red button. The button bumps the clock speed of the
graphics core and the memory, as well as increasing voltage to
world-destroying levels. Unfortunately you'll have to reach around the
back of your dusty machine to click it, but we're sure 30 minutes and a
soldering iron can re-route the button to this little doomsday-inspired
puppy. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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Filed under: LaptopsSo according to El Reg, it turns out ASUS is
selling its Eee 900 laptops in the UK with 4400mAh batteries -- quite a
bit smaller than the 5800mAh batteries that come in the US version.
It's insult to injury when you consider that the larger screen
necessarily sucks down more juice than on the 700 series, but ASUS
explains that overseas users get a tradeoff in exchange: UK warranties
last two years, supposedly longer than their US counterparts (although
to be fair, we've heard of retailers listing the US Eee's warranty at
two years as well). Caveat emptor, and all that. Read | Permalink |
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It looks like Dell's on again, off again relationship with its top-end
3008WFP monitor has taken another turn, with the company now suggesting
that customers may want to consider the previous 3007WFP-HC model if
they don't want to face "extended lead times" (apparently on the order
of 3-5 weeks). Given the $800 price difference, that may not actually
be such a bad idea -- assuming you can make do without DisplayPort,
that is.
[Thanks, Mert]
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Everyone wants a new generation ultra-portable pumping the Atom
processor right? After all, it's Intel's latest and greatest Centrino
proc. Not so fast... literally. Impress got their hands on an
unofficially released MSI Wind PC (the mini-PC, not the low-cost
laptop) and subjected the 1.33GHz Atom processor to a suite of standard
tests. While the source is in machine-translated Japanese, that table
comparing the Atom with Eee PC 900's Celeron and a typical ULV Core 2
Duo found in a wide range of full-sized, ultra-portable laptops speaks
for itself. Keep in mind though that Intel's Atom is supposed to be
less power hungry than its peers and CPU benchmarking is hardly the
last word when it comes to determining real-world laptop performance --
read/writes to disk, memory, and other system nuances must also be
considered. Nevertheless, based on this table and other mounting
evidence, first and second generation Eee PC owners shouldn't feel any
compulsion to rush out and upgrade to Atom on day 1.
[Via Technophone and Notebook Italia]
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There you have it, ASUS' Amos 'n Andy companion to the Martin 'n Lewis
Eee PC 901. The 8.9-inch Atom-based lappie show no signs of the rumored
Bluetooth or anything else unusual that we can see. Black is certainly
predictable as a continuation of the original Eee PC 700-series color
scheme. It's certainly not as surprising as the expected $650 price tag
on the original $199 low-cost laptop.
[Via The Gadget Site, Thanks KC Kim]
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Nada como ter uma enorme TV no jardim de casa! A Suntronic faz
aparelhos de televisão com tela LCD que podem ficar ao ar livre!
Os aparelhos da linha "Outdoor TVs" da Suntronic podem ter tela de LCD
de até 102" e são projetados para ficar do lado de fora de casa. As TVs
Outdoors da Suntronic têm tela de LCD super brilhante que melhoram a
visualização na luz do sol.
As TVs são à prova d'água e têm dentro um aquecedor e um
ar-condicionado para suportar temperaturas de -40 graus Celsius até 48
graus Celsius.
Via Luxurylaunches.com.
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Segundo o gerente-geral da unidade de placas-mãe da Asus, Joe Hsieh, a
empresa tem a intenção de incluir a tecnologia Express Gate - nome dado
por ela ao recurso que permite o uso de aplicativos como navegador,
programas de mensagens instântaneas e até o Skype, sem a necessidade de
se carregar o sistema operacional - em toda sua linha de placas-mãe em
resposta à boa aceitação dos usuários. A princípio, serão fabricadas um
milhão de placas por mês.
O Splashtop chegou às placas da Asus em 2007 e seu lançamento comercial
aconteceu no modelo M3, em janeiro deste ano. Até o fim do ano, a
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We've heard lots of racket about Intel's hot new Atom chip courtesy of
all those subnote manufacturers who plan on using it, but Tranquil PC
has noted that the first Mini-ITX motherboard to get powered by said
processor is now available for ordering. The Intel D945GCLF comes
loaded with a 1.6GHz Atom 230 CPU and support for high-definition
audio, 10/100 LAN, PCI, SATA II, GMA 950 graphics and DDR 2 533 / 667
(just to name a few highlights). The board can be ordered up as we
speak for £52.90 ($103), and shipments are expected to make their way
out during the first week of June.
[Via Tranquil PC's Weblog, thanks David]
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With its minute keyboard, the Eee PC can be tough to use in the dark.
Imagine, then, if yours had a backlit keyboard. The folks at Popsci
have come up with -- and explained -- a way to add one of your own. And
get this: you can do it in 3 hours for just $13.50. But before you go
ripping apart your new Eee PC, mind this: this isn't the easiest mod in
the world. You have to be cool with removing the keyboard, slipping
some wires, and doing some light soldering. In addition, the hack plops
a Techno Flash luminescent wire inverter on the outside of the case, so
if you're big on minimalism, this might be a skip.
[Via Pimp My UMPC]
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Okay, this is pretty much for the crazy keyboard aficionados out there,
but the crew over at Laptop says there's a distinct difference between
the keyboards on the black and white Eee PC laptops. They compared the
'boards on a white 701, black 4G Surf, and white 900, and while the two
white Eees had identical keys, the black unit featured different
switches with deeper keypresses and more tactile feedback, smaller
spaces between the keys, and rougher plastic. (Of course, if you
actually use any keyboard for long enough, the plastic eventually wears
smooth, so that's probably not an issue.) We doubt the difference is
going to really sway anyone's purchasing decision -- the tiny Eee
keyboard isn't exactly ideal for hardcore typists, after all -- but if
you're looking for a tiebreaker between the black and white 700s, well,
now you have one that will bore the pants off people at parties. Read |
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Filed under: Desktops, GamingNVIDIA had already heard enough about
AMD's ATI Radeon 4800 series to bump up the launch date for its GeForce
9900 series cards, but TG Daily has now apparently turned up some more
launch details for the mid-to-high-end cards, the first of which is
reportedly now on track for a release in mid-June. That first card will
be the Radeon 4850, codenamed "Makedon," which will boast 512 MB of
GDDR3 memory, single-slot cooling, CrossFireX support, and a price tag
between $189-$219. That'll be followed in July by a pair of Radeon 4870
cards (dubbed "Trojan"), with one boasting 512MB of GDDR5 memory and
the other boasting a full 1024MB, the latter of which will come with a
dual-slot cooler. Look for those to cost between costing between $249
and $279. The whole lot of them will also pack "game physics processing
capability," along with 7.1 channel audio via HDMI support, DirectX
10.1 support, and, as you might have guessed, some pretty heavy power
requirements, with a 450 watt power supply needed for a single card and
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A Creative aposta no mercado de câmeras de vídeo portáteis com conector
USB, criadas para facilitar a vida de quem quer colocar seus vídeos no
YouTube de maneira simples e rápida, com o lançamento da Vado Pocket
Video Cam.
A câmera tem uma memória interna de 2 GB e filma com uma resolução de
640 x 480 280 pixels no formato MPEG-4 com 30 fps. Você pode conferir
os seus vídeos na tela LCD de 2". A Vado também tem zoom digital de 2x
e grava vídeos de boa qualidade, mesmo em condições de pouca luz.
Esta câmera mede 9.91 x 5.59 x 1.52 cm e pesa só 84 gramas com a
bateria. Ela custa US$ 100, e tem versões nas cores prata e rosa. Saiba
mais no site da Creative.
Via Slippery Brick.
Clique abaixo para ver outras imagens.
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We knew it was due today, and what do you know: ASUS is busting out its
new 8.9-inch Eee PC 900 right on schedule. So far ZipZoomfly is selling
the XP version for $600, while Buy.com is offering up the Linux edition
for $566. We're not sure what happened to those other resellers, or
where that $550 pricepoint went, but we're sure we'll be seeing both
before long -- which means it might be wise to hold off for just a tad
bit longer, unless you really can't wait for sweet, sweet subnotebook
embrace.
[Via Laptoping]
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Filed under: Desktops, LaptopsAMD may be busy sorting out issues with
its quad-core Phenoms and hard at work on "completely different" chip
architectures, but that isn't stopping the company from aggressively
updating its roadmap, announcing today plans for 6- and 12-core
server-grade Opterons. Both the new 6-core chip, codenamed Sao Paulo,
and the 12-core unit, codenamed Magny-Cours, are based on a brand-new
platform called "Maranello," and slotting in to replace the planned
8-core Barcelona chip, which appears to have been canceled. According
to AMD, 12-core chips are easier to manufacture, so it's going to skip
over 8-core chips and go straight to the good stuff. That must be news
to Intel, which is planning on shipping 8-core Nehalem chips later this
year, and will probably then hold the coveted "number-of-cores" crown
until AMD releases the 12-core chips in 2010. There's no word on
whether any of these chips can make these processor roadmaps
comprehensible or even chronological, but we can dream, can't we?
[Via TG Daily]
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It looks like folks in Brazil are soon going to have a few more
low-cost subnote options to consider, with Mobo announcing two new but
curiously familiar-looking models. That includes the Positivo Mobo
(pictured above), which appears to almost certainly be a rebadge of
Airis' Kira 740 Eee PC lookalike (or a rebadge of whatever that is a
rebadge of). That likelihood is further backed up by the nearly
identical specs, including the usual 7-inch display, Via C7-M
processor, 1.3-megapixel webcam, and built-in WiFi, although this
particular model appears to come with 2GB of flash memory in place of
the Kira's standard 40GB hard drive. Set to be released alongside it is
the company's Mobo Kids laptop, which is just a straight up rebadge of
Intel's Netbook platform (a.k.a. Classmate 2), with it boasting the
same Celeron M processor and presumably all the same specs seen in
other incarnations like CTL's 2go PC. Look for both of 'em to pack the
same R$999 price tag (or $590), with the Positivo Mobo hitting stores
first on May 23rd and the Mobo Kids following sometime in July.
[Via Zumo Blog, thanks Leoberto]
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Filed under: Desktops, LaptopsIntel has been boasting of DirectX 10
support for its various integrated graphics options for some time now,
but it's only just recently gotten around to actually releasing a Vista
driver that brings its GM965 and G35 Express chipsets up to speed. Of
course, NVIDIA just couldn't help itself from getting a few (more) digs
in at Intel's expense, and it's now kindly provided a few benchmarks to
show just how badly Intel's integrated DirectX 10 solution stacks up
against the bleeding-edge DirectX 10-ready games it now ostensibly
supports. They couldn't find a single game that was able to crank out
more than 5 fps, even at a lowly 1280 x 1024 resolution and with the
usual graphics intensive settings turned off. Then again, 4.4 fps in
Crysis is pretty much par for the course.
Read - Crave, "Intel updates graphics with multimedia capabilities"
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And you thought $49.99 was cheap. Word on the street has it that
Microsoft's Xbox 360 HD DVD add-on, which has been seen as slightly
less valuable since Toshiba pulled the plug on the once mighty red
format, has stooped to €9.99 across the pond at GameStop (among other
locales). For those not savvy on the absurd depreciation of the US
dollar, we're talking $15.47 -- and that's with a Media Center remote
bundled in, too. We're totally straight-faced when we say that's
actually not a half bad deal if you're a fan of the media already out
there, but the parsimonious among us are definitely waiting for these
to come bundled with our favorite cereals before pulling the trigger.
[Thanks, Conor]
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"The true technological gem is the HybridPower functionality as it
allows the mGPU to function as the primary display for most application
tasks and high definition playback duties while the discreet graphics
card is in standby waiting to tackle demanding 3D tasks. We use the
term standby, but the system actually turns off the dGPU to conserve
power until required. In actual practice, we noticed a slight delay
when switching from the mGPU to the dGPU, something that we believe
driver and BIOS tuning can resolve. However, the biggest drawback at
this time is that only two discreet graphics solutions are supported,
the 9800GTX and 9800GX2 cards".
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Linux 2.6.25: Funky Weasel is Jiggy wit it
http://u-br.net
- "Palm Skin Productions - The Beast (Autechre Mix)" (Groove Salad: a
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Quando você troca o disco rígido do seu computador o que você faz com o
antigo? Joga no lixo? Lembre-se de que todos os dados gravados no disco
ainda continuam lá. Mesmo que você tenha apagado ou até formatado o
disco!
A melhor solução para apagar completamente os seus dados é destruir o
disco rígido fisicamente. E em vez de usar um martelo você pode comprar
o "Hard Disk Crusher".
O "Hard Disk Crusher" destrói um disco rígido em 10 segundos! Ele fura
o disco arruinando completamente os seus dados, impossibilitando
qualquer chance de recuperação.
E se o seu prédio foi cercado pelos inimigos que cortaram a energia,
você ainda pode destruir os seus discos rígidos usando a função manual
do Hard Disk Crusher!
O único problema é que não é nem um pouco barato destruir seus discos
com o Hard Disk Crusher. Ele custa a bagatela de US$11.500 no site da
EDR Solutions!
Via Crave e OhGizmo!.
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You heard it right -- Hitachi's UltraThin 1.5 family that caused such a
stir at CES is finally available for US consumers. Available in 32-,
37-, 42- and 47-inch sizes, the lot has been broken down into two
distinct clans: the Director's Series (X) and Ultra Vision (V) models.
Each member of the former comes with a 2-year warranty and a sticker
ranging from $1,999 to $4,699, while the latter gets a 1-year warranty
and price tags between $1,799 and $4,499. Curiously enough, it seems
that several sets (the UT47X902, UT47V702, UT32A302/W, UT32V502/W,
UT42V702 and UT37V702) may actually not yet be ready for shipping
judging by their July to September availability dates, but we'll leave
it to you to sort out the contradictions in Hitachi's press release
with your dealer. Hit the read link for more details, and hop on over
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